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Show ARE CONFISCATED Eleven Officers and 35 Men From Steamships at Samoa Are Confined. PAGO PAGO, American Samoa, April Ap-ril 1G. (Correspondence of the Associated Asso-ciated Press). Information that a state of war had been declared between be-tween the United States and Germany was made public hero by Commander John M. Poyer, the governor of American Am-erican Samoa, Saturday, April 7, after the two German ships In the harbor had been seized by naval detachments. The vessels arc the steamships Elsass, 6,591 tons, and tho Solf, 3.40S tons. Tho machinery of the boats was practically prac-tically undamaged. Tho eleven officers and 35 men of tho crews of the two vessels were at breakfast when the bluejackets boarded board-ed them without warning. They were removed to the shore, where the interrupted in-terrupted breakfast was continued. The officors have been given quarters in tho station barracks and the sailors sail-ors confined in the building used by tho island government as a jail. nn |